Georgian PM hosts country’s Muslim community on Iftar observance

Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday hosted the country’s Muslim community to mark Iftar, an occasion with which Muslims end their Ramadan fast after sunset.

 

In his address the PM praised “unity, brotherhood and friendship” between the representatives of different confessions in the country and cited Georgia as the “center of tolerance”. 

 

He stressed the country was also “unique” for the unity of the Muslim community itself. 

 

In his address the PM stressed 228 mosques had been handed over to the country’s Muslim community since 2014 and 70 others would be handed over in the future. 

 

Garibashvili noted under his first premiership between 2013-2015, a center for the community was established in the western Adjara region, which had also received a plot of land in Tbilisi. 

 

He stressed every Government of the country was “obliged” to preserve the centuries-long tradition of peaceful coexistence of different religious representatives in the country.